Reasons For

6 Reasons For

19% bigger sensor size
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The Canon XF205 has a sensor size of 3.09MPMP. That's 0.58MP bigger than the Panasonic HC-W570 (2.51MPMP).
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A megapixel (MP or Mpx) is one million pixels, and is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an image, but also to express the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays. For example, a camera that makes a 2048 1536 pixel image typically uses a few extra rows and columns of sensor elements and is commonly said to have "3.2 megapixels" or "3.4 megapixels", depending on whether the number reported is the "effective" or the "total" pixel count (as opposed to the 2048 1536 = 3,145,728 finished image pixels).

A larger number of megapixels increases the sharpness of images and video.

25% higher movie megapixel count
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The Canon XF205 has a movie megapixel count of 2.91MPMP. That's 0.71MP higher than the Panasonic HC-W570 (2.2MPMP).

The Canon XF205 is $2,589.21 more expensive than the Panasonic HC-W570.

7 Reasons Against

Smaller sensor size
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Panasonic HC-W570 is only 2.51MPMP sensor. That's 0.58MP smaller than the Canon XF205 (2.51MPMP).
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A megapixel (MP or Mpx) is one million pixels, and is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an image, but also to express the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays. For example, a camera that makes a 2048 1536 pixel image typically uses a few extra rows and columns of sensor elements and is commonly said to have "3.2 megapixels" or "3.4 megapixels", depending on whether the number reported is the "effective" or the "total" pixel count (as opposed to the 2048 1536 = 3,145,728 finished image pixels).

A larger number of megapixels increases the sharpness of images and video.